T. George McDowell believes in Getting the Job Done. He is a small industrialist on the South Coast of New South Wales, a manufacturer of aerated soft drinks. A Rotarian, a Mason (though unconvinced), an apostle of Progress, of electricity, refrigeration and the wireless, he is a Realist and a Rationalist - a 'fair man but hard as nails'. T.George McDowell sees himself as a bastion of quality in a world that is not changing for the better; a champion of independent enterprise against both big corporations and trade unionism. He is a shy, lonely man whose conception of a carefully planned family cannot accomodate his sexual longings. He is a maker and a breaker. He is also a surprsingly appealing and winning character. Into his world of old-time values at last comes Becker, the Coca-cola salesman and sometime lover of T.George's second daughter, Terri, as some kind of emmissary from the new world.